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A “phone” call with Alexa and Microsoft's new direction

Originally aired: Thursday, May 11, 2017
Category: News

Alexa, Amazon's artificial intelligence personal assistant, can now make phone calls -- so, of course, we try it out live on this episode of the Week in Geek. Plus, hear about Microsoft's bold new strategy and the surprise guest that showed up at the Amazon Spheres this week. Follow all our coverage and read the stories we talked about this week at GeekWire.com Thank you to this week's sponsors: Wealthsimple -- GeekWire listeners pay no management fees for a year when they invest up to $15,000 on Wealthsimple's automated investing platform. GoDaddy -- who is offering GeekWire listeners 35 percent off their purchase of a GoDaddy domain. Just use offer code gearedup35 at checkout.